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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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This article is published in Review of Metaphysics.The article was published on 1997-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2568 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Democracy.read more
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The use and abuse of ‘universal values’ in the Danish cartoon controversy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the main shortcoming of the way in which dominant actors in Denmark responded to the cartoons was exactly that they failed to see the Muslim minority as capable of participating in interpreting and giving shared norms.
Dissertation
Constitutionalising political parties in Britain.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that all agencies of power should be regulated within a constitutional framework which allows public scrutiny of the political system as a whole while affording the greatest measure of freedom to civil society and, on the other hand, parity of autonomy to the state.
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Deliberative capital: recognition in participatory budgeting
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an account of participatory budgeting in Rosario, Argentina, based on observations and interviews with participants, and focus on interpreting the meanings that participation has for citizen ‘councilors.
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Democratic Deliberation in the Modern World: The Systemic Turn
TL;DR: The normative ideals and feasibility of deliberative democracy have come under attack from several directions, as exemplified by a recent book version of a special issue of this journal as mentioned in this paper, and the authors of the special issue have pointed out that "criticism ha...
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Cyber-Publics and The Corporate Control of Online Communication
TL;DR: In this paper, a general investigation of this corporate takeover and the limits it places on the possibility of the Internet extending the public sphere is carried out, focusing primarily on the United States and finding that the increasing ownership of the network's content, code, and bandwidth by a few huge vertically and horizontally integrated media corporations is providing the basis for the control of online communication.
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
TL;DR: In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing--and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves.
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Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a framework for understanding the range of institutional possibilities for public participation, including who participates, how participants communicate with one another and make decisions together, and how discussions are linked with policy or public action.
Deliberative democracy or agonistic pluralism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the current debate about the nature of democracy and discuss the main theses of the approach called "deliberative democracy" in its two main versions, the one put forward by John Rawls, and the other one put forth by Jurgen Habermas.
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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance
TL;DR: Public diplomacy, as the diplomacy of the public, not of the government, intervenes in this global public sphere, laying the ground for traditional forms of diplomacy to act beyond the strict negotiation of power relationships by building on shared... as mentioned in this paper.
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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
TL;DR: Tweets and the Streets as mentioned in this paper examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest, arguing that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a "cyberspace" detached from physical reality.
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